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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

δέσμη

δεσμός

, bundle, fr.

δεῖν

to bind.]

(Min.)

Same as

. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.

Noun.

A mineral that crystalizes in little silken tufts, which accompany spinellane in the lava of extinct volcanoes on the banks of the Rhine.

See also: desmine

desminé